subphylum
noun
subphylum is a noun meaning “A taxonomic category below phylum and above class” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-U-B-P-H-Y-L-U-M, and it appears about once in every 60 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of subphylum is subphyla; Wiktionary also lists subphylums (nonstandard).
What does subphylum mean?
noun
- 1
A taxonomic category below phylum and above class
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of subphylum
- subphyla plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is subphylum?
Subphylum appears about once in every 60 million words in written English, the 243,301st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Subphylum in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense taxonomic category below phylum and above class:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sous-phylum |
| German | Unterstamm, Subphylum |
| Portuguese | subfilo |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does subphylum come from?
From sub- + phylum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).